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Established in 1929, Carolina Narrow Fabric specializes in manufacturing custom-designed specialty textiles for a variety of applications. The ISO-certified firm also supplies tapes and fabrics to a broad range of markets, such as electrical, medical, automotive, aerospace, marine, industrial, military and liquid/gas transport. The company produces webbings from polyester, nylon, Kevlar, Vectran, fiberglass and carbon fiber. Its woven fiberglass tapes find applications in the electrical equipment market. Carolina Narrow Fabric has developed a proprietary process to dye fiberglass yarns.

Parkdale Mills is one of the world s largest independent producers of cotton and cotton-blend yarns. Since 1916, the company has used a consistent focus on the latest technologies and how these technologies can improve the company s product, which have made it a leader in the industry. Parkdale Mills has a plant in Hillsville, Va., and it manufactures ring-spun yarn, cotton, cotton/polyester-blend yarns and 100-percent polyester yarns. Parkdale Mills is the only company to use open-end, ring-spun, air jet and vortex spinning systems in the production environment. Parkdale Mills is headquartered in Gastonia, N.C., and maintains more than 25 plants throughout North Carolina, including Lexington, N.C.